North Dakota Student Rocket Payload Contest

will be chosen to actively engage in (1) building a high powered rocket, (2) building a component of their proposed payload and, (3) then compete in a rocket fly-off in April 2008.Prizes for 8 winning teams include:

A commercial rocket kit.A commercial motor casing and three (3) solid fuel re-loadable motors. (This is only to be handled by the faculty advisor).Payload supplies (between $300-$500).Facilities for launching the student rockets will be made accessible.A chance to develop and fly a full scale payload in a rocket that can reach 100,000 feet. Three teams will be chosen from the April fly-off. Rules will be distributed to the eight competing teams once they are chosen.The site also describes the rocket that will be used for the fly-off here:

The first component is building a large reusable launch vehicle to launch experimental student projects to high altitudes ... The avionics bay will have telemetry and video components. The telemetry will be used to give 3-D tracking and digitized visualization of the flight and the video will supplement the data with recorded high resolution movies